The Preacher: A Poem

by Gerald Stern

“ The Preacher ’s a poem with polyphonic voices, enormous range, and many of Stern’s familiar his animism, his city grit, his philosophical fragments, his irony and justice quest, his reaching for the strain of memory.”—Ira Sadoff Gerald Stern is the author of fourteen poetry books, including This New and Selected Poems , which won the 1998 National Book Award. He taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for fifteen years, and he is the recipient of many awards, including the Lamont Poetry Prize, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the National Jewish Book Award for poetry.

Genres: Poetry

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2007

About the author

Gerald Stern, the author of seventeen poetry collections, has won the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among others. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.